Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 42
In the evening his Majesty and the vizier had a long and earnest talk about their two sons.
Who acts: Majesty, long earnest · What happens: have, talk
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majesty, long earnest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 vizier | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vizier | det |
| 8 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Majesty | conj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 earnest | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 earnest | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 earnest | cc |
| 13 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 talk | nsubj |
| 14 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | parataxis |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 sons | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sons | nmod:poss |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 sons | nummod |
| 18 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 talk | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | presence's Majesty and the vizier | evening | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | talk | present | a long earnest | about people's two sons | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about son=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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